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IV. The EPA’s Request for Comments 

and Next Steps 

The EPA will consider the comments 

received, revise the criteria documents, 

and prepare final national 

recommended HHC for PFOA, PFOS, 

and PFBS that reflect EPA’s 

consideration of those comments. The 

EPA will announce the availability of 

the final national recommended HHC 

for these three PFAS in the Federal 

Register. When final, these HHC will 

provide information that States and 

Tribes may consider when adopting 

water quality standards for PFOA, 

PFOS, and PFBS. The EPA expects to 

develop additional HHC for PFAS as 

scientific information becomes 

available. 

Bruno Pigott, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2023–0129; FRL–12524– 

OMS–01] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Consolidated Air Rule for the Synthetic 

Organic Chemical Manufacturing 

Industry (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has submitted an 

information collection request (ICR), 

Consolidated Air Rule for the Synthetic 

Organic Chemical Manufacturing 

Industry (EPA ICR Number 1854.14, 

OMB Control Number 2060–0443) to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. This is a proposed 

extension of the ICR, which is currently 

approved through December 31, 2024. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register on 

May 18, 2023 during a 60-day comment 

period. This notice allows for an 

additional 30 days for public comments. 

DATES: Comments may be submitted on 

or before January 27, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2023–0129, to EPA online 

using https://www.regulations.gov/ (our 

preferred method), by email to a-and-rdocket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460. 

The EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

Submit written comments and 

recommendations to OMB for the 

proposed information collection within 

30 days of publication of this notice to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Muntasir Ali, Sector Policies and 

Program Division (D243–05), Office of 

Air Quality Planning and Standards, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 

27711; telephone number: (919) 541– 

0833; email address: ali.muntasir@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

request for approval of a new collection. 

An agency may not conduct or sponsor, 

and a person is not required to respond 

to, a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Supporting documents, which explain 

in detail the information that the EPA 

will be collecting, are available in the 

public docket for this ICR. The docket 

can be viewed online at https://

www.regulations.gov or in person at the 

EPA Docket Center, WJC West Building, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC. The telephone number 

for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744. 

For additional information about EPA’s 

public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets. 

Abstract: The Consolidated Federal 

Air Rule (CAR) for the Synthetic 

Organic Chemical Manufacturing 

Industry (SOCMI) (40 CFR part 65) was 

promulgated on December 14, 2000; and 

amended on August 27, 2007, November 

12, 2010, August 11, 2011, June 25, 

2013, and January 19, 2021. The CAR 

regulations are an optional compliance 

approach for new and existing SOCMI 

facilities that must comply with existing 

subparts in the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR). The CAR is a 

consolidation of major portions of 15 

different New Source Performance 

Standards (NSPS) and National 

Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 

Pollutants (NESHAP) pertaining to 

storage vessels, process vents, transfer 

racks, equipment leaks, and the general 

provisions for the three applicable parts 

(40 CFR parts 60, 61, and 63). These 

subparts are referred to as ‘‘referencing 

Subparts’’ because they have been 

amended to refer to the CAR as a 

compliance alternative. New facilities 

include those that commenced 

construction, modification or 

reconstruction after the date of proposal 

of the applicable referencing subpart(s). 

The referencing subparts include 40 

CFR part 60, subparts Ka, Kb, VV, VVa, 

DDD, III, NNN, and RRR; 40 CFR part 

61, subparts BB, Y, and V; 40 CFR part 

63, subparts F, G, H, and I. This ICR 

does not incorporate burden from 

recently proposed amendments to 

referencing subparts VV, VVa, III, NNN, 

RRR, F, G, H, or I (88 FR 25080) or 

subpart Kb (88 FR 68535). This 

information is being collected to assure 

compliance with 40 CFR part 65. 

Compliance with the CAR is a 

voluntary alternative. Sources may 

either continue to comply with existing 

applicable rules or may choose to 

comply with the consolidated rule. All 

existing sources must be in compliance 

with the requirements of the CAR and/ 

or its referencing Subparts within three 

years of the effective date (i.e., 

promulgation date) of the appropriate 

standard for the affected source. All new 

sources must be in compliance with the 

requirements of the CAR and/or its 

referencing Subparts upon startup or the 

promulgation date of standards for an 

affected source, whichever is later. 

In general, all the NSPS, NESHAP, 

CAR, and maximum achievable control 

technology (MACT) standards require 

initial notifications, performance tests, 

and periodic reports by the owners/ 

operators of the affected facilities. They 

are also required to maintain records of 

the occurrence and duration of any 

startup, shutdown, or malfunction in 

the operation of an affected facility or 

any period during which the monitoring 

system is inoperative. These 

notifications, reports, and records are 

essential in determining compliance, 

and are required of all affected facilities 

subject to these standards. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Synthetic organic chemical 

manufacturing facilities. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subparts Ka, 

Kb, VV, VVa, DDD, III, NNN, and RRR; 

40 CFR part 61, subparts V, Y, and BB; 

and 40 CFR part 63, subparts F, G, H, 

and I; 40 CFR part 65). 


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Estimated number of respondents: 

1,346 (total). 

Frequency of response: Initially, 

quarterly, semiannually, annually. 

Total estimated burden: 1,220,000 

hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.3(b). 

Total estimated cost: $219,000,000 

(per year), includes $65,200,000 

annualized capital or operation & 

maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: The 

increase in burden from the most 

recently approved ICR is due to 

adjustments. This increase is due in part 

to an adjustment to the number of 

sources assumed to comply with the 

CAR instead of the referencing Subparts. 

Recent Title V permit reviews for a HON 

rulemaking identified very few facilities 

were complying with the CAR. Based on 

the information reviewed for this 

rulemaking, we have assumed only 10% 

of sources will choose to comply with 

the CAR. This change, in addition to 

increased respondent counts, resulted in 

an increase in burden hours for 

referencing Subparts associated with 

HON. Additionally, respondent counts 

increased for several referencing 

Subparts based on industry growth 

rates. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2024–0521; FRL–12356–01– 

OCSPP] 

Pesticides; Spanish Translation Guide 

for Pesticide Labeling; Notice of 

Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or Agency) is announcing 

the availability of an updated guide for 

pesticide registrants to translate parts of 

their pesticide product labels into 

Spanish. The Spanish Translation Guide 

for Pesticide Labeling (STGPL) is 

written based on a universal form of 

Spanish to reach as many Spanish 

speakers as possible and provide 

example translations for language 

typically used in the health and safety 

sections of pesticide product labels. 

DATES: This guide is effective December 

26, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: The docket for this action, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2024–0521, is 

available online at https://

www.regulations.gov. Additional 

information about dockets generally, 

along with instructions for visiting the 

docket in-person, is available at https:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Bartow Pesticide Re-evaluation 

Division (7508M), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Office of Chemical Safety and 

Pollution Prevention, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460–0001; 

telephone number: (202) 566–2280 

email address: OPPBilingualLabels@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Executive Summary 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the general 

public and may be of specific interest to 

persons or entities that register or use 

pesticide products. Since a potentially 

broad range of entities may be interested 

in this action, the Agency has not 

attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be interested. If you 

have any questions regarding the 

applicability of this guidance to a 

particular entity or registration action, 

contact the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

B. What is the Agency’s authority for 

taking this action? 

Pesticide registration activities are 

governed by the Federal Insecticide 

Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), 

7 U.S.C. 136 et seq., which was 

amended by the Pesticide Registration 

Improvement Act of 2022 (PRIA 5) on 

December 29, 2022. PRIA 5 amended 

FIFRA section 4(k) to require the safety 

and health portions of pesticide product 

labels to be translated into Spanish. 

PRIA 5 provides deadlines for bilingual 

labeling to appear on pesticide products 

on a rolling schedule from December 29, 

2025, to December 29, 2030, with 

translations for the most hazardous and 

toxic pesticide products required first. 

PRIA 5 also requires the Agency to 

notify registrants within 10 days of 

updating the Spanish Translation 

Guide. 

C. What action is the Agency taking? 

EPA is announcing that an updated 

Spanish Translation Guide for Pesticide 

Labeling (STGPL) is available on the 

Agency web page to help guide 

pesticide registrants translate parts of 

their pesticide product labels into 

Spanish. EPA generally allows pesticide 

registrants to translate their product 

labels into any language so long as there 

is an EPA-approved English version of 

the label, and the translation is true and 

accurate. 

For additional information about 

bilingual labeling for pesticide products, 

go to https://www.epa.gov/pesticidelabels/bilingual-labeling. 

II. Background 

EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) originally released the STGPL to 

the public in 2019 in response to 

concerns voiced by farmworker 

advocates, who argued that having 

bilingual pesticide labeling is critical to 

the well-being and protection of 

pesticide applicators and farmworkers 

who may be exposed to pesticides, 

many of whom in the U.S. may not be 

English literate. This more recent 

version of the STGPL includes changes 

or updates following stakeholder 

feedback, a sampling of current labeling, 

and statements from the 2021 Label 

Review Manual (LRM) that had not 

previously been included. These 

updates are comprised of additional 

language examples for different 

sections, updates made based on the 

LRM, and entirely new sections inserted 

with examples. 

The STGPL is a resource for pesticide 

registrants to use for the translation of 

the required human health and safety 

sections on pesticide labeling from 

English to Spanish. Only these sections 

are necessary for translation to ensure 

that workers have access to important 

information to protect themselves from 

pesticide exposure, and to get 

appropriate help if exposed to a 

pesticide product. While use of the 

specific language from the STGPL is not 

required, EPA encourages use of the 

language in the STGPL to ensure 

translations are ‘‘true and accurate’’ per 

the responsibility of the registrant. 

III. Do guidance documents contain 

binding requirements? 

The STGPL is intended to provide 

guidance to pesticide registrants and 

EPA personnel and decision makers. 

While the requirements in the statutes 

and Agency regulations are binding on 

EPA and the pesticide registrants, the 

STGPL does not impose binding 

requirements on the Agency or any 

outside parties. As guidance, EPA may 

depart from the guidance where 

circumstances warrant and without 

prior notice. Likewise, pesticide 

registrants may assert that the guidance 

is not appropriate generally or not 

applicable to a specific pesticide or 

situation. 

EPA encourages the use of the 

language in the STGPL to ensure that 

translations of the English text are ‘‘true 


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